Two separate explosions rocked Zamboanga City Sunday, causing extensive damage to a hotel and a cockpit arena and wounding nine people, including three boxers. Chief Superintendent Elpidio de Asis, Zamboanga Peninsula Regional
Police Office director, said the first explosion occurred at 12:25 p.m. inside a cockpit arena in Barangay San Roque, where five persons were wounded.
“We are thankful that it happened two hours earlier than the expected convergence of people here, the cockfighting regularly starts here at 2 p.m.,” De Asis said.
“The improvised explosive device was placed near the bleacher, so we could not imagine the damage and casualties it might cause if the explosion occurred when this area is packed with people,” he added.
De Asis said the explosion shattered the glass panels separating a portion where cockfighting occurs and the portion of the wooden bleachers.
He claimed the damage was minimal if compared with the destruction caused by the blast at Red Palm Pension House in Barangay Guiwan, also in Zamboanga City that happened five minutes later.
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